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That all to say, any comment of 'sister' by Rodimus to Starscream is purely insulting.

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'Siblings', in Cybertronian terms, is almost exclusively used in cases where mechanicals are born in a batch, usually emerging at the same time.

This is usually exclusive to twins, trines, quartet, and thus on. The largest of these sets are the very rare 13-strong groups, while the smallest is the two-sparks-one-body folks. Both are quite rare. Groups of 2, 3, and 5 are most common.

Most are born at the exact same moment, with a few being within seconds of eachother. This helps cement in a sibling-bond. Most emerge or online holding eachother's hand too.

Trines are usually siblings. 'Transplanting' seekers into trines was common in the late Golden Age, having bodies and sparks moved around to suit the old King's tastes. Starscream being unrelated to her trine is a result of this process, though not by the King's hands.

Because of these schemantics, neither of the Hands nor the Thirteen are considered siblings. All were made with sizable gaps between each addition.

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Rival things.

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Rodimus welcomes all.

Magnus and Prowl are a bit more careful in checking newcomers.

They're not too fond of the Prime's seemingly carefree open arms.

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And that, everyone, is character progression.

It's no secret how miserable Thundercracker is. She, ruled by an arrogant princess that isn't even spark-related, is in charge of much of the paperwork for Vos. Her life is mostly that and trying to keep Starscream in line with Megatron.

It's no way to live. It's no burden to bear. She's more loyal to Megatron than her own sister.

But things change. There's an earth dog, threatened by fire. He's sweet and happy and unafraid of her. She names him Buster. He makes her happy.

Starscream doesn't like dogs. Nevermind any Earth crap that stinks.

That's the last straw. Thundercracker gathers a few things, rips her insignias off, throws away her jewels, and goes to the Autobots. And Rodimus, bless him, takes her. Few questions, plenty of understanding.

She doesn't want to fight anymore. Rodimus makes her a civilian. She's got an eye for film. Rodimus gives her a camera and tells her to have fun. It's an unfulfilled niche in the Artistic Committee and she does her job well.

It's fun: being yourself. Not just one of three. Just one, singular but not alone.

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Just fun little bits of canon; certain characters' favourite foods.

AUTOBOTS

Rodimus: Raw Fish (organic and mechanical)

Orion: Silver Glimmeron

Optimus: Dwarf Starlight

Magnus: Uranium Coffee (w/ four pumps cream)

Prowl: Straight, very thick Uranium Coffee

Jazz: fear (jk, it's silver donuts)

Mirage: Diamond Glimmeron

Ratchet: C O F F E E (+two drops of ambrosia)

DECEPTICONS

Megatron: has no sense of taste.

Starscream: Pomgarnets.

Galvatron: Petroleum

Cyclonus: Galvatron

Scourge: Kreemzeek Juice

Soundwave and Shockwave: have no tongues.

Soundwave's Kids: whatever Megatron is drinking at the moment.

Thundercracker and Skywarp: Loose-leaf titanium tea and jet fuel.

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No one loves his job as much as Froid loves WILLINGLY being the Wrecker Psych/Medic.

He is SO HAPPY to have been thrown into the wastes of space, performing therapy for a bunch of trigger happy maniacs in the engine room and sleeping in a closet.

PRIMACY TOTALLY DOESN'T LEAD TO NEPOTISM OR ANYTHING

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Pros of a Primus-made Hunter:

They can pull energon out of the air or out of their host, thus negating the need for bullets.

Cons of a Primus-made Hunter:

They're powered with God energon. Getting hit with one imparts any effects that energon might have.

Those whacked over the head by Tyrest get really, really drunk for like two days.

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About: Hunters

A Hunter is a unique type of weapon, known for its unparalleled skill in conforming to the user's body and needs. They can form nearly any weapon in an instant, following each movement in perfect sync.

Even the 'mass-produced' Hunters, produced for a few scant decades on Cybertron, are extremely rare. They use scrap energon, like any other energy weapon, but consume it in larger quantities than most weaponry. It's generally easier to just use a solid version of a weapon.

Unlike the following Hunters, these are limited in capability. They're limited to items with handles and can't go any larger than six meters in length. Guns are often slightly ineffectual.

There are currently about 2,000 of these in circulation, amongst a Cybertronian population of about 200,000. They're code-locked to function only for Transformers: Quintession efforts to replicate them have been fruitless.

*scepter

Prior to minor efforts made by mortals to replicate the concept, all Hunters were made by Primus himself. And he made very, very few of them. The Guiding Hand have an exceptionally unique set, each keyed to their Spark and made using a mix of their Innermost Energon and Ambrosia. They won't function for anyone else.

They have a base form of a bracelet. Neither Adaptus nor Solomus wear it as such, preferring to keep it in an 'active' state. Fair for Adaptus; their Changling body requires a Hunter to function. Removal of their Hunter/Arm means they go back into a base state.

The oldest and most powerful Hunters, however, are on Earth. Both were custom designed for Unicron, made of a mix that its body wouldn't eat on habit. Thus, it has a great amount of power, even with an unskilled user.

This Hunter, nicknamed Longinus, spent a short amount of time under Megatronus Prime's use. After that, it was passed about the Solians who lived around the old Prime's body (aka, Polynesia) until it came into possession of O. Witwicky. It takes the form of a cane most of the time.

A correction: the bident pictured below is Longinus, not Adamant. After S4, Starscream takes this Hunter for herself.

Adamant, on the other hand, remained in Unicron's control for as long as possible. After it split apart, Adamant wandered across Earth until it became Merlin the Wizard's personal staff. He took it to his grave.

During S1, said grave is dug up and Adamant ends up in Rodimus' hands. Due to his similarity to the Unmaker, it happily accepts him without driving him mad or mutating him horribly. He's quite attached to it.

With Rodimus, it forms the Adamant Bow and Adamant Harpe. He wears it like his resemblance; wrapped in a brace, happy to let it faintly writhe on him because it freaks Magnus out.

Both Unicronian Hunters have charms on them. These have a small recording of Primus singing from very, very long ago; unfortunately, they're pretty degraded and sound absolutely ghastly. Both are tossed in S4.

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And that's why Rung is named... well, not Primus.

He knows who he is. That's never been kept from him. But Megatron was so deeply uncomfortable with calling this tiny thing that he ran off with Primus, so they went with Rung. Like a bell, or the bottom of a ladder.

Rung doesn't remember his time as the Maker. He doesn't remember much beyond shadows that sink in when he sleeps, giving him nightmares of teeth. His abilities remain, if unhoned and often uncontrolled, but he's not really that stalwart Almighty that raised a civilization from the ground up.

He tries not to mind it. From all he's read, and from some admittingly biased talk from both Megatron and Optimus, he's not really certain that lacking his memories is any true loss.

In an emotional sense, at least. He would rather like to know how to get crops to grow in usuable rows, rather than on the ceiling.

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[Image Text ID: Religion is nothing more than a forced moral code made by higher castes. Pardon me if I see no point in trying to appeal to some theoretical almighty that is content in the subjugation of the vast majority. If Primus were to exist, and made himself known in some likely obnoxious show of power, there would be little keeping me from testing whether or not immortality also truly exists.]

[Image Text ID: 4,000ish Years Later]

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It's hard to count deities under mnemoharmonic or mnemodiscordant, as their brains are inherently different to most mechanicals.

The Unmaker is the base of all discordant behavior but is full capable of the same 'harmonic' practices used by its sibling. Only the action is more like ramming a square peg into a triangle hole.

Not that the Maker's adjustments are comfortable either. There's an itch to it, as the gap left by removed memories is complete: no scabs left behind like with a surgeon. Just an empty, confusing space. It can leave good feelings in place, to soothe the wound, but forgetting to do so (or choosing not to) can be just as uncomfortable as any other procedure.

Also, Megatronus Prime is too self-focused and romantic to go rooting around in people's brains. The rest of the Primes generally don't care. Except for Trion, of course: his domain is memory.

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Of course, mnemosurgery (and the mnemoharmonic traits that seem to be linked to the practice) has its quirks.

Mnemoharmonic individuals are those who have a particular tuning that gives them greater capability of the mind. Many of these mechanicals are telepathic to a degree, though whether or not that ability developed before or after exposure is uncertain.

Good examples of mnemoharmonic individuals: Soundwave (shadowplayed, minor skilled), Sunder (surgeon, highly skilled), Rung (god and has no idea what he's doing), most of the Thirteen (demigods, deeply limited by morals), Windblade (extremely minor skill), and etc.

Mnemodiscordant individuals are those who are tuned to the opposite. They're deeply resistant, sometimes even immune, to the entire process. This trait is often considered to be a 'thick-headedness' and force of will.

Good examples of mnemodiscordant individuals: Magnus (immune to non-needle usage and resistant to surgery), the Guiding Hand (generally immune), Megatron (resistant and capable of moving when stuck with needles; he bites a lot), Megatronus Prime (too emotional), and etc.

Those who react typically are just considered mnemoconsistant. That's a technical term rarely used; they're usually just called 'normal.' Most mechanicals are considered this.

Notably, mnemoharmonic individuals are more likely to be capable of joining a Choir and are ranked higher in capability for being Cityspeakers. Mnemodiscordant individuals make for better spies and politicians.

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Mnemosurgery is a... contentious process.

On one hand, it's the second most invasive thing you can do to a mechanical. On the other, it's application in medical circumstances is unparalleled.

A skilled mnemosurgeon can completely negate the need for pain relievers. They just... shut that sense off for a bit, make the patient nice and calm during a procedure. Like a forced happy place. They're also unparalleled at finding coding quirks, intentions, and poor habits.

All therapists registered in the Golden Age have some training in mnemosurgery. Even those who are openly against the process, like Froid, were required to have needles installed. When not taking care of patients, many were tasked with being the middleman in interrogations and shadowplay.

That's the tradeoff. There's no way to regulate a mnemosurgeon without another mnemosurgeon. Threats of death worked well in the past but there's no government that causes such fear anymore.

Under Megatron, the practice is outlawed (in the sense that, if you're caught, he'll personally rip your head off). Under Rodimus, the practice is to only be used to fix feralization or translating those who are completely paralyzed. Any other use is pretty much a death sentence.

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Episode Summaries, S4:

To be edited, refined, removed, and set in stone. This is mostly to show order of events.

Season 4 Opening. Cybertronians and Solians unite to beat the scrap out of the Quints. They make their way to Quintessa 9 to finish the fight and rid existence of that set of parasites.

Autobots, Decepticons, and those of the Sol System learn to get along with eachother. And everyone, including Rung, learns to... maybe just not bother Unicron. Except for Starscream. She gets along just fine with that thing.

The Solians join the rest of the galaxy. It leads to some fish-out-of-water events. Cybertronians also have to fix their relationships with a universe that they kept colonizing.

Season 4 Finale. All is well.

Plotlines that have an undecided location in this season:

Starscream's... actually okay day? Sure, she dies for, like, real, but she gets a nice new crown out of it. And a... partner?

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Episode Summaries, S3

To be edited, refined, removed, and set in stone. This is mostly to show order of events.

Season 3 Opening. Two months remaining of Earth's habitability. All life on Earth is being loaded onto the ARKs. Titan activity off the charts.

Quintessons try to pretend they care and help to get people off-world. They are unbelieved.

Unicron wakes up enough to start chasing Rodimus and actively attack the ARKs.

The last ships get off-world. The Sol System evacuates. Unicron gives chase. Rodimus attempts to use the Matrix but misses.

Season 3 Finale. The empty Matrix is then used to suck both of the Creation Twins in. Quintessons make their move to take the filled stone. Wounds scab over, enough to cooperate. A form of Unity is found.

Plotlines that have an undecided location in this season:

Maybe: Megatron kills the DJD (sibling and Scourge aside). No more annoying cultists.

Starscream's No Good, Very Bad Day 3. No clue on that plot. There must be one per season.

Someone fights the Moon. Undecided on who, as Rung's a vegetable until about the finale.

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Episode Summaries, S2

To be edited, refined, removed, and set in stone. This is mostly to show order of events.

Gryphon Falling: the DJD arrive. The reanimated, somehow more purple Gryphon attacks the entire crew pitted against it and starts wrecking Seattle. Gryphon successfully consumed by Galvatron.

Wreckers arrive. Rodimus avoids Springer, Froid gets pissy around Rung, and Whirl and Arcee compete to see who can piss off Prowl first. Whirl wins.

Starscream's No Good, Very Bad Day 2; Starscream gets stupid jealous of Cyclonus. Skyfire, sick from angolmois poisoning and sick of Starscream's scrap, leaves to be a hermit.

The GAIA Coalition sues Galvatron. Tyrest is brought in by a nervous Magnus to serve as his lawyer.

Megatronus Prime starts to wake up under Hawaii. This either: ends with a super badass fight between Megatronus, Solus, and Liege Maximo or ends with someone (maybe Orion) slapping some sense into this lunatic.

Nightshade steals the Covenant in a bid to understand everything. It goes poorly.

S2 Finale. Quintessons successfully make their way into the bowels of the Earth and access Unicron. Out of desperation, Cyclonus makes a deal and lets Unicron out. Earth is given 3 months of habitability.

Plotlines that have an undecided location in this season:

Tyrest loses his shit. Didn't even take the guy a single season. Pathetic.

Galvatron steadily gets sicker and sicker throughout the season, culminating upon the final episode.

Sunder shows up to steal people (and Froid) away. Ravage, thinking herself capable, goes after him. The Green Fox follows and is revealed as Magnus, who vows to put Sunder behind the bars that he deserves. Froid kicks that jackass into Skyfire's grip to be eaten. (late season)

The Coalition gets more and more aggressive; even against the people of Earth. The elder Witwicky isn't himself anymore.

Also stuff about the younger Witwicky having to deal with Rodimus pushing him to find peace with his maniac twin. Some people just don't deserve that.

What happens when a being of pure power Combines with a mortal? Madness, usually. But not for Megatron.